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  Simms and Medd were part of the mass-release of Allied prisoners when Italy surrendered in 1943. Their escape story - and the bravery and kindness of the Italians who helped them  on their ... read more

  The Long Walk Home: An Escape in Wartime Italy

  Peter Medd

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  Of the 50,000 Jews who were sent to concentration camps from Salonika, only 2,000 returned. The author is one of them. This manuscript from 1948 is presented by his grandson.

  Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44

  Isaac Matarasso

  Hardback
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  A marvellous debut from a young man of complex literary and musical parentage: birds of a feather, sins of the father, on and off the rails (the cenotaph too, memorably) - and a magpie calle... read more

  Featherhood: ‘The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years’ Neil Gaiman

  Charlie Gilmour

  Hardback
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  In this inspired recreation of her parents' hopes and lives, MW has created a vivid memoir of post-war childhood and adventure in Cairo, Italy and London.

  Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

  Marina Warner

  Hardback
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